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Gerardino Gutiérrez, María Paula (Fecha de defensa: 2014-12-17)
This thesis investigates various aspects of economic development. In the first chapter, I study the impact of violence on human capital investments, focusing mainly on the relationship between male-biased ...
Brassiolo, Pablo A. (Fecha de defensa: 2012-05-03)
This thesis sheds light on several aspects of the economics of marital formation, dissolution, and bargaining. The first chapter focuses on the relationship between divorce law and family wellbeing, and ...
Rodríguez, Ana (Rodríguez González) (Fecha de defensa: 2020-06-04)
This thesis consists of four independent articles. The rst two study the causal e ect of being born by cesarean section on child health. In the rst paper, we use data from Spain and show that ...
Lombardi, María (Fecha de defensa: 2017-09-12)
This thesis is composed of three independent articles. The first chapter studies a nationwide teacher pay-for-performance program in Peru, and shows that it had a precisely estimated null impact on ...
Felfe, Andrea Christina (Fecha de defensa: 2008-07-15)
Esta tesis evalúa el papel de las características no deseadas del trabajo - llamadas disamenities - en el contexto del balance entre trabajo y familia. Particularmente, se plantean las siguientes ...
Costa Ramón, Ana (Fecha de defensa: 2020-06-29)
This dissertation consists of three essays that investigate the effect of children’s health shocks on children’s and parent’s wellbeing. In the first chapter, we investigate the effect of C-sections on ...
Fernández Bazán, Fernando (Fecha de defensa: 2019-06-12)
In the first chapter, I analyze the consequences of increased prenatal exposure to marijuana on infant health in the US. I combine individual-level information on birth outcomes with novel data on the ...
Surovtseva, Tetyana (Fecha de defensa: 2015-04-10)
In Part I of this thesis, I show that, when immigrants’ host and home countries engage in trade, labor market returns to cultural capital specific to the trading partner increase. Using two trade ...
Gavalyugova, Dimitria (Fecha de defensa: 2021-07-16)
This dissertation comprises three chapters on the intersection between gender, development and human capital investments. The first chapter explores the impact of the rapid expansion of the Cambodian ...